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alt-d alt-f etc. stops working in my xterm

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Mar 15, 20262648 views

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Something weird sometimes happens on my Debian system. Typically at the prompt line I can use combo like alt-d to delete a word, alt-f to go to the next word, etc. But quite regularly something happens in my xterm that makes alt-d and alt-f not work anymore: suddenly they print 'ä' (alt-d) and 'æ' …

Error Output

$ more .Xresources 
XTerm.vt100.eightBitInput: false
XTerm*eightBitInput: False

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you need in your ~/.Xdefaults Start a new xterm, hopefully that shouldn't have the problem anymore

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alt-d alt-f etc. stops working in my xterm

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